Freescale Semiconductor and Qualcomm Atheros collaborate to demonstrate home energy management using the Smart Energy Profile 2.0 over Wi-Fi, ethernet and the homePlug Green PHY (HomePlug GP) standard. The Smart Energy 2.0 standard is currently under development in cooperation with a number of other standards development groups. It will offer an IP-based energy management solution Continue reading →
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Enecsys Limited has teamed with Ember to bring wireless ZigBee communications to roof-top solar photovoltaic (PV) systems so that households and businesses can better monitor and optimize their systems’ performance. via Enecsys Selects Ember’s ZigBee Technology to Help Optimize Solar PV System Performance – MarketWatch.
Freescale Semiconductor FSL -2.26% announced that it is collaborating with Qualcomm Atheros to demonstrate home energy management using the Smart Energy Profile 2.0 over Wi-Fi, Ethernet and HomePlug(R) Green PHY (HomePlug GP) standard. The technology was demonstrated at the Metering, Billing/CRM Europe event this week. via Freescale Collaborates with Qualcomm Atheros to Advance Home Energy Continue reading →
The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, today announced it has certified 341 ZigBee Certified products. This growth is more than 80 percent over last year’s 187 ZigBee Certified products. via ZigBee Alliance Passes 300 ZigBee Certified Products Milestone — SAN RAMON, Continue reading →
Operating in the 2.4 GHz frequency that can be used almost anywhere, the ZigBee wireless protocol provides a low-cost, low-power mesh network ideal for green and global embedded applications such as smart energy and smart home initiatives. Øyvind shares an overview of ZigBee specifications and implementation requirements for ensuring device interoperability. via Smart energy apps Continue reading →
ZigBee wireless networking technology is powering the smart grid revolution, and there are a couple of recent press mentions that cement this point. One is the recent announcement of the new Consortium for SEP2 Interoperability, the other is a prediction from InStat, a major market analysis firm, that the smart meter space will take off Continue reading →
The ZigBee Alliance says that its Smart Energy Profile version 2.0 draft 0.7 has been approved unanimously in the latest Smart Energy Working Group (SEWG) letter ballot. According to the alliance, this vote is a major milestone in the completion of the Smart Energy 2.0 standard and keeps it on schedule. via Renew Grid: Content Continue reading →
The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of organizations creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, residential, commercial and consumer applications, today announced the Smart Energy Profile version 2.0 draft 0.7 was unanimously approved in the latest Smart Energy Working Group letter ballot. This successful vote is a major milestone in the completion of the Continue reading →
Smart meters, while still arguably a nascent phenomenon in the utility market, has some global legs in it, argues a new In-Stat report. Initially cited as a way to record and read a consumer’s electrical, gas or water usage, the smart meter has a number of other functions that In-Stat forecasts the market will surpass Continue reading →
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), the industry leader in highly integrated connectivity solutions and a Promoter member of the ZigBee Alliance, recently announced that it achieved ZigBee Certified status for its ZigBee Smart Energy 1.1 standard implementation, recently introduced by the ZigBee Alliance. TI is pleased to announce the availability of its new Z-Stack 2.5.0 with Continue reading →
The HomePlug Alliance, Wi-Fi Alliance, HomeGrid Forum and ZigBee Alliance have agreed to create a Consortium for SEP 2 Interoperability. The new consortium is intended to enable organizations whose technologies support communications over Internet Protocol (IP) to certify SEP 2 according to a consistent test plan. Recognizing that the vision of interoperable SEP 2 devices Continue reading →
National Technical Systems, Inc. (NTS) announced that it is the first lab that has been qualified by the ZigBee Alliance to offer certification testing of the enhanced version of ZigBee Smart Energy version 1.1 standard. Additionally, NTS has also released an update to its ZigBee Smart Energy test harness – NTS SETest 1.1 – designed Continue reading →
The updated ZigBee Smart Energy version 1, the first and only widely available Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) standard, is now available for product development and public download. ZigBee Smart Energy version 1.1 has been enhanced with several new features including dynamic pricing enhancements, tunneling of other protocols, prepayment features, over-the-air updates and backwards compatibility with Continue reading →
What is ZigBee Smart Energy 1.1 and what functionality does it add? ZigBee Smart Energy 1.1 is an incremental release of the ZigBee Smart Energy standard. ZigBee Smart Energy 1.1 adds two categories of features, the first introduces new optional functionality, including: Block tariffs (inclining/declining block rates) Meter swap outs Tunneling of manufacturer specific protocols Continue reading →
The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of organizations creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, residential, commercial and consumer applications, today announced that an update to ZigBee Smart Energy™ version 1, the first and only widely available Advanced Metering Infrastructure standard, is now available for product development and public download. via New ZigBee Smart Continue reading →
The ZigBee Alliance has announced a revised Smart Energy version 2.0 standard is available for public review and comment. The revised draft 0.7 document, which includes progress made by the Smart Energy Working Group on a variety of topics, now enters a 30-day ballot period while simultaneously collecting comments from some key external stakeholders as Continue reading →
The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of organizations creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, residential, commercial and consumer applications, today announced a revised Smart Energy version 2.0 standard is available for public review and comment. The revised draft 0.7 document includes progress made by the Smart Energy Working Group on a variety of Continue reading →
ByteSnap Design has announced the release of the ZMM-01, the industry’s first ZigBee Smart Energy compliant module to combine lower power, faster deployment, and trouble-free compliance with wireless standards in a single, low power platform. The ZMM-01 also provides a Real Time Clock, accurate up to 2ppm. via ByteSnap Launches Low Power ZigBee Smart Energy Continue reading →
Some smart meter projects are essentially on hold while engineers work to break up a long jam delaying the definition of a key standard for tomorrow’s home energy networks. Meanwhile, a U.S. effort to define a broad suite of smart grid standards is gearing up to publish an update of its guidelines. via Smart meters Continue reading →
The ZigBee home area network standard already has lots of challengers (Z-Wave, Wi-Fi, and HomePlug to name just three). Now it faces an assault from the biggest, baddest billion-dollar bully of them all – Google. via Smart Grid: Will Google destroy ZigBee?.
